#obscurity

Donald had reached its further edge, and could hear the rush of the stream from the deep obscurity of the abyss below, when there rose from the opposite side a strain of the most delightful music he had ever heard. ↗

— Hugh Miller

#below #could #deep #delightful #donald

I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#certain #certain things #confident #content #directions

Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you! ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#heart #heartbreak #jane-eyre #love #misconceptions

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#literary-criticism #obscurity #writing #authority

No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#duty #escape #mind #obscurity #questioning

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#decent #english #language #learned #left

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#deserving #distinction #everybody #honor #i

Obscurity is the realm of error. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#obscurity #realm

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#forever #glory #obscurity

The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#mind #obscurity #out #passion #singling